State Bank v. Campbell

In August, 1840, a judgment was, by confession on a cognovit, rendered in a suit then pending in the Shelby Circuit Court in favor of the appellant, and against the defendants, for 223 dollars, on a note then ten months past due, for 400 dollars. A copy of the note, without any credits having been indorsed thereon, was embodied in a warrant of attorney, which was executed by said defendants, and contained, among others, a clause that the attorney of said defendants was authorized to “confess said action for such sum as may appear to our said attorney to be due at such time of confessing…